Inuit
Hunting reel with lure
Inuit, 1800-1932
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Inuit
Hunting reel with lure
Inuit, 1800-1932
Physical Qualities
Wood, whalebone, sinew, 8 1/4 × 12 × 17 in. (21 × 30.5 × 43.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Bernice Barth, Los Angeles
Object Number
2003.166
A carefully constructed rare object. A whalebone strip up the longer slanted wood leg, additional wood bone crossbars holding a circular whalebone band. Two supplementary whalebone stabilizers on the sides. Additional smaller bone elements attached with pegs relating to the spooling and retaining of a line. A bone lure (probably for hunting sea mammals) attached with sinew line (possibly original to the reel).
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift 2003; Bernice Barth, Los Angeles
